7; VOL. L.XIX. A CONTEST ON MILLER WILL FIGHT CRONISTER'S ELECTION. | A Petition Presented to the Court Contest. tng the Sheriffship — General Dissatis- faction Among the Republicans. Last Thursday afternoon a few min. | utes before adjournment of court, a pe- | tition was presented by ex-Judge Furst | and E. R. Chambers in which the election of Wm. Cronister is contested by the defeated Republican candidate Abram V. Miller. | The petition is signed by a number | of men on the other side of the county and states that by means of irregulari- ties and illegal votes in many of the districts of the county, Cronister re- ceived the majority of 16 votes which elected him. In several districts the petitioners claim that many votes were counted on ballots illegally mark- ed. A mark had been placed in the circle at the head ot the Republican column and a cross also placed after Cronister’s name. On these grounds the petitioners claim that Miller re- | ceived the greater umber of votes, | It is claimed that the following number of illegal votes were eounted | in the districts named below: | Howard Boro., 30: Howard Tw p., 15 or more; Liberty 10; Marion 12: Patton | 25; Worth 40; Burnside 30; North Rush 15; South Rush 20; Philipsburg 1st Ward 26; 2nd Ward 17; 8rd Ward 100: Benner 15; East Gregg 5: West Ward Bellefonte 5; North Boggs 15; West | Boggs 20; East Boggs 5; West Fergu- | son 15; Unionville 10; Huston 20; Gen eral 50. Judge Love granted a petition and named Saturday, Jan. 2nd when Cron- ister will make answer to the charges. | The case will be argued and if the court deems sufficient evidence can be | produced, the contest will go on and! the fun begin, Meanwhile Sheriff Cronister will be sworn in and take his office, his cer- | tificate of election having been served | on him. It is not known whether there w il be a contest in the full the | word or a recount. Either will throw | the county into an enormous expense, and the move of Miller has met with | little approbation from the better class | of Republicans. i The Democrats express no fear as to | the outcome. In every district but | two there is a strong Republican wa jority which is bound to affect Millerd more than Sherift Cronister, { i i sense of pressor ——— | RURAL FREE DELIVERY, i The Success of the Experiment in Farming Districts. Rural free delivery for letters has | been begun at a number of points 22 states, in accordance with a provis- | in | 2 ion in the latest postoffice appropria- | tion bill. It is working very well so] far, and its success gives encourage | ment to extend the service. The de- | partment has acted on rational prinei- i ples in making the small beginning of | of a great work. It has begun the free deliveries in small town having | LIST OF JURORS, glonlog Monday Jan 23, 1897, i | i | | On Monday the jury commissioners | California has court, commencing on Monday, Jan- uary 25th, 1897, | GRAND JURORS, R. F. Comley, Union. Percival Rudy, College, Edward Fisher, Union, Wm. Straub, Spring. John Moore, Potter. Watson Struble, Spring. TO. Morris, Miles, Elias Krumrine, Penn, A, Walters, Millheim. Charles A. From, Harris. Orlando Weston, Taylor. Gabriel Betz, Marion. Wm. Calderwood, Tavlor, Emanuel Bollinger, can find and nee a blessing, The Penns, ny, { recognizing ' | comfortable and j Philipsburg, ; : , ing the continent Henry Heaton, Boggs. W. L. Lewis, Boggs. Wm. Lyons, Howard Twp. Thomas Bechtol, Howard Twp. Wm. I Lewis Ma; shal, Benner, of annual tours to train New toppi a through cars from Y ; . Coast, and « Miner, Gregg, points of popularity of ti i i y Millh2im Hays Schenck, Howard Boro. Joseph Fox, 8. 8. Crissman, Philipsburg. Ceorge Ulrich For the REASON tellefonte, have been arrar TRAVERSE JURORS IST WEEK. Jacob Wooding, Worth. John MeCool, W. E. Kaufman CG. W, Naugle, C.K. H n, J. Miles Green, Jacob Col Win. J nw P.J. MeDonald, U E Philipsburg 8. R. Kunes, [, ) Philip Ertle, Howard Tw J n Irvin, Coll Joseph Barton, I L. C. Rear } A.W. Har Wm rie J hn I Abraham Craft, Snow Shoe. H. F 1900 be rg, Centre Hall. Charles Rachau, Grege. Geo. W, Cummings, Millheim. Conrad Miller, Spring. Febr January 27, 23 Cregg, , SHOW Shoe, ia St i, § Route, and re urn 1. Ci cago, allowing fis Diego ¥ Philipsburg, ick Bellefonte, i via Salt ike Milesburg. e, Spring fin, inson, Shoe, The second tour nionville, Mammoth Cave a Ross, Pi San Diego, top : § he erty wiv. p- Cr ree ege 114 mmville, or, Philipsburg, Marion, ck, nner, Pe bride y 3 's i J. | Denver, and Sal £; Jair, Bellefonte. different : i months, All of these | via r a 4 LO ur Colorado region, Fred Slegal, Gregg. A.C Henry Sowers, College, ¢ Bartges, Haines, tates from all p Albert Smeltzer, Spring. Philip Wortz, College. J. B. Howe, Wm Jeremiah Runner, Li Adam Felty, Harris, A. C, Relly, Benner. W. J. Bodle, Benner. Wobert D Musser, Gre 2g. Michael Mays, Boggs, P. H. Stover, Pen. Thomas E. Royer, Miles, Jesse Gunsallus, Snow Shoe. W. 8B. Miller, Miles, Wm. H. Twigg. Rush. Aaron Meyers, Huston. Wm. B. Mingle, Centre Hall. John Gentzel, Walker. Cieorge W. Muss<er, Patton. Fred Decker, College Twp. John Brown, Bpring. burg: First tour, Philipsburg. £150 ane way. i | format ~ w butt, Benner, of berty. mi, apply { adelphia, - | Pennsylvania: any gray, black or been Is no he nee Calif of Pi Ure at Fler v i ou i » ip (CRF move of t ged IArY 2 8) | HANNA'S REALM | MOKINLEY'S MANAGER WILL RULE | THE COUNTRY, most fittingly All He Has Charge of Everything and Will Dictate the Policy to bs Parsued Here An Extra Session of Congress, has estab- | WasHiNGTON, Dec, 7. ign of The re Ler | y 1. 2 | Mark Hanna has opened in Washing- 5 Fl {ton. He is attracting more attention ) y i te} . { from Republican Senators and i Repre- ( the cali . ; . ’ seniatives than the opening of pil - I lent's tis t 8 and the Presi d gre Hvssg re fine for } De , and he lovelier { Mpa d of on way of eros rurated a MR, running 1344 P Himan thie br I'hy } the Lil + mens. 4 three i ’ ICRYVe A N ¢ tthe RARITY, and will nd at Mard ret : i Mites ® eth (ile His £ * HO; y # al 1 » oi. fox sg the i urn witht er go jg Nt ; y iW the Gio beng Pent Pitt ILLS F, i tl on $1 ond trip, tou i ana 1d in Rel agencies, . rive the Republi Passen ¢ $ § Vian extra session, of whom there rir F saying ther nt 1 1 ances this will not be a diMeu { The 3 iy many, an s f ) i i necessity | tider the circume- It task, can § i & i i bills regular fois e time o appropriation easily manipulated so as to take up all th f the short session. | President Cleveland's seventeen | 1 > i uirrel between | thousand word message 1 : £4 iterary point of view, Its repetitions, 3 i ’ ’ ress 1s ng £5 . s froma a well be written document. recommenda- t ions, « of them have one the united endorsement of the ea { f Mr. Cleve i many ol land's admirers in private life. But it inet $a | 3 19 and doubtless o Emanuel Peters, College Boro. thickly settled farming communities | around them, the service being limit- | ed to within a radius of four miles | from the postoffice. It is thus a le- | gitimate and logical extension of the | city delivery service, and begun in | this way, it can be gradually extended i further from time to time, until the! de JOLLSEATY : , . i B.V. Fink, Taylor. whole country is covered. The work | : ye can be aided materially by a revision ™ J. R. Lee, Potter. of the postal laws; cutting off, or at w mm. Conds, Haines, least cutting down, the abuse of the re ug Theas. frankiong privilege and making the F801 . 1Vin, /uion. es postage rates more rational, and also| J°00 Summers, South Philipsburg. by pushing the good roads movement S22 dohson, Bellefonte, in every community, so that the car- dl . hy o om nes, riers can get about on bicycles. In WV ih po \trege. fact the latter might be reasonably J a, The | pring. made a condition of free delivery, and 1 9) ox ny BE doing so by Congress could asecomplish x i " , sini work without cost to the Na-| AU4rew bolger, Philipsburg, B great works ? Ed. Brown, Jr., Bellefonte, y Wm. Carson, Spring. ————— A soot Big Game Confiscation, E. T. Tuten, Bellefonte, At Bt. Paul, Minn., the other day, g H. Srimn, Ki si7siro0m. the State game warden seized and con- Mey UY enter, : : Adam Mays, Rush. fiscated 30 tons of venison, which, it is . : : Wm. Goheen, Harris, said, was being shipped to Boston, ws . New York and Chicmzo. W. N. Auman, Millheim. The fines for illegal transportation | Frank Geisewhite, Haines. 5 Samuel Gordon, Spring. of the game will reach $40,000 or $50,- 000. This is said to be the largest seiz- Archie Allison, Bellefonte, . : ‘ Thos. Eckenroth, Union, made time in the Uni- y nee ever made at one C. C. Bartges, Gregg. ted States, Walter Smith, Boggs. Beymour Winkleblech, Haines. Yas Way to be Happy. em Edward Kerlin, Benner, Is to attend to the comfort of your Geo. Brown, Boggs. family. Bhould one catch a slight cold or cough, eall on R. E. Bartholo. mew, Centre Hall, and G. H. Long, Spring Mills, and get a trial bottle of Otto's Cure, the great German Reme- dy free. We give it away to prove that we have a sure cure for Coughs, Colds, Asthma, Constipation, and all diseases of the throat and Lungs. Large sizes 0c. and 2c. TRAVERSE ~2ND WEEK, David M. Whiteman, Walker. A. Newman, Milesburg, Henry Lowry, Bellefonte, James Black, Philipsburg. JURORS Thomas Malone, Boggs. D. D. Good Rush. Weekly Weather Report, Temperature : Highest Lowest, Dec. 8 “ “" “ i“ LL] 47 8 cloudy, ufall : Un 8 nodo th uffdalgh, or! ey | ptem- | renalty, $5 for each rail or reed | sp ty Diphtheria Ravages The family of W. IL. Decker, at Spring Mills, hus been seriously afliot- | ed with diphtheria in a most malig- | nant form for several weeks past, and | already two deaths have occurred in | the family, and at this writing anoth- | er child is reported beyond recovery. | The disease has been confined to the | family of Mr. Decker, and has not | communicated to other persons, and every precaution is being taken to con- fine it within the Decker family. The two children who have died were both girls, aged about 4 and 6 years, AA sin Improvements, Clem Luse has the foundatioh com- pleted for his new house, and before many moons expects to have it under roof. Sheriff Spangler is putting up a big ice house on his lot adjoining the hotel. An addition has been built to the rear of Wolf & Crawford's store room, to give them more ware house room. C. Poulson will soon have his house ready to move iu and then he'll flit from Howard here, We have the finest assortment of canned goods, evaporated fruits and fine groceries ever offered to the trade in Bellofonte. Goods in this h the effect upon whole the temperance had, sane MZress as a as distribu- reli- tion of a bateh of Or It has It is any gious tracts would have neither praised nor denounced 3 » : of it may, a little later on be made the text for some interesting features. Tom Reed is today the most inde- pendent man in the Republican party. have to give, and nobody knows it any better than the big man er of the next House without raising a | finger, although the McKinlevites | would give much for some scheme that would enable them to down him, but they dare not make an open move | in that direction. Those enemies of the Democratic | party who had somehow, most proba- | bly because they wished it, gotten the | idea that Senator Hill intended to at- | tempt to knock the bottom out of! things by making a speech in the Sen- | ate in which he would pay all his po- litical and some of his personal debts by telling things that ought not to be told and saying things which were best left unsaid, have been barking up the wrong tree. Sénator Hill may think he has political wrongs to avenge, but it ean be stated upon the very highest authority—that of hime | seif~that he has’nt the slightest idea of assuming the role of a public aveng- er on the floor of the Senate, and that instead of trying to widen the breach between Democrats he will endeavor to the extent of his influence to bring about a better state of party feeling. Representative Berry, of Ky., who wae re-elected, has this to say of the election in that stats: “On a fair and ——~ hi Suniity and el square vote Kentucky would have gone uwjorivy, Bw | hut money was used without stint, in modern polities. There is always a purchasable element, and when money Is a plentiful as it was in Kentucky this year, there is no trouble in getting ut the crats elected seven out of the eleven mercenary recruits, Congréssmen in spite of the corrupt methods of the and years hence the Democratic ticket will opposition, two sweep the state,’ - * -. EDITORIAL NOTES, r Victoria has raved 150 million 000 In the queen business, and can biggest queens-ware shop on ! this freeze winter, ville woolen mills shut K, throwing many hands McK ko inley p them Was these parts r knows how to raise hogs, fier loft Fars " mg ell home on Monday for and Houserville. this place helping their father. hier. fF 0 son | were at J. ] i { i # bool Palmer to bute ws Li F ta few days with her mothe r HALL Aust, Contre ing 4 £ 3 te % 1 i mg isin town taking « Arg: i 118 brother's store, i ‘ 3 ! M iss Lresner, of Belle fi Honte is for Miss Lill sewing | it Allis Hi. Ws pm - CONGRESS MEETS, i 1 Congress assembled on Monday. and | both houses listened to the reading of | the President's message and then ad-| Journed. A caucus of the Republican members was called for Monday even- ¥ ing, but the Republican silver senators i refused to meet with the goldbug sen- at Ie silver senators will not vote for any (ar ars, which leaves the Republicans ywerless to pass any tariff bills as the $ tariff measure without a free silver sec. tion in it, On Tuesday senator Mille, of Texas, introduced a resolution. demanding a seisure of Cuba by the United States and ending the war. The Cuban ques tion is about the only one that will re- ceive any attention, In Mr. duced a resolution recognizing the in- the senate Cameron intro dependence of Cuba, The Coming Winter The meteorologist of the New York Herald is inclined to believa the signs cessor. He says: “The exceptional States seems to be quite a distinet in- dication that the coming winter will not be generally as mild as its prede- ceswor, In November, 1895, no phe- nomenal ‘cold wave’ appeared; the highest American pressures reported by the weather bureau during the month were 30 70 inches north of Mon- tana on the 18th and 30.74 at Cape Bre- ton on the 23d. In the present stage of weather study and prognostications it would not be safe to predict an ex- traordinarily cold winter from the present atmospheric conditions in the United SBiates. But the warning now given by the barometer in the north. west should lead all classes in the northern sections of the country to provide against the miseries of an in. clemant season,” Fine pure sugar Table 8 new crop New Orleans Lo NO. 49 i | Interesting Inklings, Our venerable and much esteemed towneman, Peter Hoffer, now of age, is in feeble condition, 78 years Jerry Bhreffler has been nursing =a very sore hand the past ten days, Everybody has been having work { cleaned up in good shape out-doors and ready for winter to set in. Boob has inquiry for sleighs, a sure #ign there is to be ter slelghing this win- all wish for it, § it The Bradford and the Gentzel hut Ng gangs are in the mountains vet, fr Andy Reesman is housed-up from a sore throat, The ia Lutheran bhath Mal !¢ iuded to have a | f 1liday e mien Harry Swab i a1 i butcher ¢ i o do it. YER AN BEeRsIOND ie A AR rales 4 i + and MeSp for Master, Wednesday LE i with 3 Was caim ‘ : y this morning “Christmas gifts’ will soon t stockings ready. {ff ic Three or four new «dicated in this county this fall. The reason of there not being so ma- " ny heavy hogs killed this fall, is giv- t if : 5 ev ds § Ph ni by farmers that hogs weighing nes We AR) are mere profitable than those ibs, and over, } i stubmeribe for the wporter and pet importance from outside. Sore throat is troubling a few iv. sons in this vicing Get your job work done at this office ) J i I, plain or fancy ; prices aiways reasonable, EE a — SR Two or Three Flocks At least three flocks of wild turkeys have been seen on the mountain above two miles. One flick was very large and seventeen were counted in it. The other flocks have from ten down. The is attributed the plentifulness of the As they only a few turkeys have been killed and there plenty as are, The season closes on Jan. 1, must be some hustling if any of the birds are to be killed. dc am— Deer on the Edge. Last Saturday a week a young man named Jodon, while out hanting near a mile from Bellefonte, came upon a large four-pronged buck. Although Jodon had nothing but fine shot, he had no trouble in killing the deer. It taken to Bellefonte, where it was found Some think the while by near the Valentine ore banks about was to weigh 120 pounds. by others think that he was attracted deer on Gentzel’s gaine reserve, Zion, the dogs, A A Care for All [ils county who paper in advance. He | never has been sick a day in his life, never had any corns or the tooth ache, his potatoes never rot, the weevil nev- er eats his wheat, the frost never kills his corn or beans, his babies never ory at night and bis wife never scolds. Try it. There is a man in this One§Week Only, We understand the school directors have decided to allow only one week vacation during the holidays instead of two as in former years. About Eas- ter however, there will be a vaeation of about a week. This it is thought, will be more satisfactory than the for mer arrangement, A A A ARs Dou’t be persuaded into buying lini ments without reputation or merit— Chamberlain's Pain Balm costs no more, and its merits have been proven by a test of many years. Such letters as the following, from L. G. Bagley, Hueneme, Cal, are constantly being received: “The Best remedy for pain I have ever used is Chamberlain's Pain Baim, and I say so after saving used it in my family for several years.” It and swellings. For sale by R. E. Bar tholomew, Centre Hall, J. H, Ross, re %: yra Syrup, Ma. pis Sori, ai pl Si 3 Linden, Hall, 8. M, Swarts, ville, sod Willhiw Pouler,
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